Noah Cordle’s discovery was a rare and “classic” Clovis point dating from 13,500 to 14,000 years ago. Expert says Hurricane Sandy made the find possible. Dennis Stanford, left, talks about the Clovis ...

Depictions of ancient humans in both scientific and popular culture contexts picture them throwing spears at the thick hides of mammoths. A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that ...

Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering experiment.

A team of archaeologists and anthropologists from multiple institutions in the U.S. has found evidence that the Clovis, an early North American population, may have used so-called Clovis points for ...

When Edgar B. Howard heard that a road crew in eastern New Mexico had stumbled across a cache of big ancient bones, he dropped everything and grabbed the first westbound train. At the time—November ...

The earliest humans to settle the Great Lakes region likely returned to a campsite in southwest Michigan for several years in a row, according to a University of Michigan study. Until recently, there ...